Contextes (Feb 2019)
Le « dedans » et le « dehors »
Abstract
In contemporary narratives, the literary representations of reading and hermeneutics question the power of fiction and invite to rethink the effects of reading. We will therefore study three examples of how contemporary fictions devise our interpretative practices and challenges the power relations that lie into critical and theoretical speeches: the reflexive aesthetic of Éric Chevillard that reshapes the reader’s theoretical role, the tension between literary value and the implications of reading in Emmanuelle Pireyre’s books, and the reflection about subjectivation in reading in Arno Bertina’s writing. Literary criticism, through the hierarchies and conventions that it conveys, is especially mocked, and reconsidered, by these - often ironical - fictions. Such texts renew the approach to reading experience, as literary texts produce themselves a critical thought about hermeneutics.
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